North Lyell - waiting for news at the mouth of the tunnel
Part of Images of West Coast Tasmania
Image contains text identifying the subject and also 'copyright'. Originally taken from a postcard published in the weeks following the 1912 North Mount Lyell mine disaster. Image shows people milling around outside of unidentified buil...
View of a substantial, multi storey ruined building destroyed by fire, Queenstown Tasmania
Part of Images of West Coast Tasmania
The image shows many men standing within the ruins facing the camera as a hose plays water onto the building. Electronic file is titled 'after fire.tif'
View of a railway cutting under construction, Queenstown Tasmania
Part of Images of West Coast Tasmania
Image has a steam engine and many mining carriages standing beside a steep hillside denuded of vegetation. Many men carrying shovels stand around, apparently working on the site. Image possibly connected to Mt Lyell mining operations.
View of shop, B Bird Butcher with proprietor outside, Queenstown Tasmania
Part of Images of West Coast Tasmania
Image shows street scene with partial images of adjacent shops. B Bird Butcher's shop depicted, with man in apron standing in doorway, dog on footpath nearby, plus horse under saddle standing in road. Contains contemporaneous hand written tex...
King River Gorge, Mt Lyell Railway
Part of Images of West Coast Tasmania
The image appears on a printed playing card (7 of Spades) with legend in text at the bottom. The cards were part of a tourism promotion campaign by the Northern Tasmanian Tourist Association, printed and distributed just after the Great War (World...
Mt Lyell Smelters & Converters (copper), WC
Part of Images of West Coast Tasmania
The image appears on a printed playing card (4 of Diamonds) with legend in text at the bottom. Image shows significant industrial buildings in operation.
View of woodchoppers Burge and Garcie preparing for competition, Queenstown Tasmania
Part of Images of West Coast Tasmania
Image likely taken from a newspaper and has a partial printed legend at the bottom: 6 T. Garcie, of Strahan (left) v W . Burge, of Crotty (right). Won by Burge.
View of boats on the Gordon River, Macquarie Harbour, Tasmania
Part of Images of West Coast Tasmania
Image like sourced from a newspaper or publication as quality is grainy and contains legend at the bottom: F.O. Henry's Lynx and Grining's Valkyria, Gordon River, c1930. Compare with Boats on Franklin.tif
View across the smelters towards the hills at Crotty, Tasmania.
Part of Images of West Coast Tasmania
Image clearly shows the smelters in the foreground. Image is oval and slightly cropped.
Portrait of 11 men being members of the North Lyell Mechanical Staff, Crotty, Tasmania.
Part of Images of West Coast Tasmania
Image likely sourced from a newspaper or publication as it contains printed legend at the bottom: "All that is left of them - a reminiscence of Crotty, May 30, 1903. Eleven members of the North Lyell Mechanical Staff, which numbered a short t...
Two views of Crotty, Tasmania, showing electric machinery and power station.
Part of Images of West Coast Tasmania
Image likely sourced from a newspaper or publication as it contains printed legend at the bottom: electric motors driving blowers at Crotty (and of the lower image) Electric power house at Crotty.
View of the All Nations Hotel, Zeehan, Tasmania
Part of Images of West Coast Tasmania
Image is likely sourced from a newspaper or publication as it shows title at the bottom: Roe's All Nations Hotel, Zeehan. It also identifies the photographer and states "Sands & McDougall Ltd Collotype". The view is very early a...
Bishop-Osbourne
Part of Images of West Coast Tasmania
Image likely sourced from a newspaper or publication as it has a printed legend at the bottom.
View of the Band Rotunda, Zeehan, Tasmania
Part of Images of West Coast Tasmania
Image has hand printed label giving title and date in bottom.
Lilley
George Musgrave Parker: Correspondence and research records
Most of the papers consist of notes made about historical queries, a rough draft of his book, and correspondence with East Coast residents and others requesting information. There is also a collection of newspaper cuttin...
George Musgrave Parker
The Shot Tower, Brown's River Road
Part of George Musgrave Parker: Correspondence and research records
H.H. Baily postcard of the Shot Tower, Browns River Road, showing the telegraph lines
George Musgrave Parker
Part of George Musgrave Parker: Correspondence and research records
Small pencil sketch by Douglas Pratt of the Hobart docks with Mt. Wellington in the background.
George Musgrave Parker
Part of George Musgrave Parker: Correspondence and research records
Postcard by D.I.C. Photo of the Post Office, Hobart, taken from Franklin Square
George Musgrave Parker
Part of George Musgrave Parker: Correspondence and research records
Sketch of Franklin Square, Hobart, by Roy Cox. Roy Cox (1903-1976) was a Tasmanian artist and print maker. He originally worked for Cox Kay printers in Hobart.
George Musgrave Parker
Postcards of prisoner's sentence
Part of George Musgrave Parker: Correspondence and research records
Postcard of the sentence for Thomas James
George Musgrave Parker
Part of George Musgrave Parker: Correspondence and research records
Beattie photograph of painting.
George Musgrave Parker
Part of George Musgrave Parker: Correspondence and research records
Postcard of the Penitentiary at Port Arthur. Ash Bester postcard, Tas. No.110
George Musgrave Parker
Part of George Musgrave Parker: Correspondence and research records
Photograph taken by F.M. Kennedy - thought to be Buckland church
George Musgrave Parker
Part of George Musgrave Parker: Correspondence and research records
Photograph of the graveyard at Buckland, thought to be at the Buckland church
George Musgrave Parker
The old barracks at Spring Bay
Part of George Musgrave Parker: Correspondence and research records
Photograph of the old barracks at Spring Bay which were built between 1842 & 1850 taken by George Musgrave Parker
George Musgrave Parker
View of mine works at Comstock, near Zeehan, Tasmania
Part of Images of West Coast Tasmania
Image shows men standing beside winches, rail carts and other aspects of the mining operations.
Colin Dennison
Part of Olive Pink Collection
Coloured pencil drawing sketched by Olive Pink, Beltana, South Australia 17/7/30. Identified by Olive Pink as Acacia salicina
Olive Pink
Part of Olive Pink Collection
Pencil drawing sketched by Olive Pink at Beltana, South Australia 18/7/30. Identified by Olive Pink as Portulaca oleracea
Olive Pink
Part of Olive Pink Collection
Coloured pencil sketched by Olive Pink, Warraweena, Beltana, South Australia 19/7/30 Identified by Olive Pink as Mistletoe Berry - Loranthus exocarpi
Olive Pink
Part of Olive Pink Collection
Pencil on paper sketched by Olive Pink at Callanna, South Australia, 20-21/7/30 - identified by Olive Pink as "plant about 2 to 3 inches high both at Beltana and Callanna"
Olive Pink
Part of Olive Pink Collection
Coloured pencil on dark card, sketched by Olive Pink at Callanna, South Australia 20-21/7/30. Identified by Olive Pink as Scaevola aemula
Olive Pink
Part of Olive Pink Collection
Watercolour on watercolour paper painted by Olive Pink at Wire Creek, Central Australia, 6/8/30 . Identified by Olive Pink as Clianthus
Olive Pink
Part of Olive Pink Collection
Pencil on paper sketched by Olive Pink at Edwards Creek, South Australia, 25/7/30 "near cottages". Identified by Olive Pink as Watsonia
Olive Pink
Part of Olive Pink Collection
Watercolour on paper, painted by Olive Pink at Edwards Creek, South Australia, 26/7/30. Identified by Olive Pink as Kochia
Olive Pink
Part of Olive Pink Collection
Coloured pencil on card sketched by Olive Pink at Edwards Creek, South Australia ?/7/30. Identified by Olive Pink as Trichodesma zeylanicum
Olive Pink
Part of Olive Pink Collection
Watercolour on paper painted by Olive Pink at Edwards Creek, South Australia, 13/8/30. Identified by Olive Pink as Crotalaria dissitiflora
Olive Pink
Part of Olive Pink Collection
Watercolour on card with pencil, painted by Olive Pink at Edwards Creek, South Australia 1930. Identified by Olive Pink as Psoralea
Olive Pink
Part of Olive Pink Collection
Watercolour and pencil on paper sketched by Olive Pink at the The Finke, Northern Territory 4/9/30. "natural size"
Olive Pink
Part of Olive Pink Collection
Coloured pencil on paper sketched by Olive Pink at Horseshoe Bend, Central Australia 13/9/30. "and Rodinga" Identified by Olive Pink as Warra Warra (3ft high in places and many on one plant) 6-5-1a drawn on other side of paper
Olive Pink
Part of Olive Pink Collection
Coloured pencil on paper sketched by Olive pink, Horseshoe Bend, Central Australia 13/9/30
Olive Pink
Part of Olive Pink Collection
Watercolour and pencil on light green card sketched by Olive Pink at Rodinga, Northern Territory 13/9/30. Identified by Olive Pink as Brunonia australis (Goodeniaceae)
Olive Pink
Part of Olive Pink Collection
Pencil and crayon on card, sketched by Olive Pink at Rodinga, Northern Territory 28/9/30. "from nature (exactly) but most often a creeper and therefore simple petal at top)+ sometimes 4 below - trails of it are feet long in every direction&qu...
Olive Pink
Part of Olive Pink Collection
Watercolour on paper painted by Olive Pink at Rodinga, Northern Territory 13/9/30. Identified by Olive Pink as Goodina or Velleya?
Olive Pink
Part of Olive Pink Collection
Coloured pencil on card, sketched by Olive Pink at Rodinga, Northern Territory 18/9/30. Identified by Olive Pink as Helicrisum
Olive Pink
Part of Olive Pink Collection
Pencil, some coloured on paper sketched by Olive Pink, 58 miles from Darwin, Northern Territory 26/10/30. Identified by Olive Pink as native cotton - " lemon hybiscus like flowers- naturalised cotton - thought not indigenous?"
Olive Pink
Part of Olive Pink Collection
Pencil and watercolour on paper sketched by Olive Pink, Macdonnel Range, Northern Territory, 28/11/30. Identified by Olive Pink as Oxylobium
Olive Pink
Part of Olive Pink Collection
Pencil on paper sketched by Olive Pink, Macdonnell Ranges, Northern Territory 26/11/30. Identified by Olive Pink as Isotoma petraea
Olive Pink
Part of Olive Pink Collection
Pencil on card sketched by Olive Pink, Tortanga Quatcha, Water Hole, C. Aus, Northern Territory 27/11/30. Not identified by Olive Pink
Olive Pink
Part of Olive Pink Collection
Coloured pencil on paper sketched by Olive Pink, Near Granites, Northern Territory, no date. Identified by Olive Pink as Petalostylis labicheoides "Mulga Plain Country"
Olive Pink
Part of Olive Pink Collection
Water colour and pencil on paper sketched by Olive Pink, Jay Creek, Northern Territory 27/12/30. Identified by Olive Pink as Loranthus miguelii "veins in leaves lighter and more yellow than leaf - flowers bright red"
Olive Pink
Part of Olive Pink Collection
Water colour on dark card sketched by Olive Pink, (place and date unknown) Northern Territory. Identified by Olive Pink as Mathiola?
Olive Pink
Part of Olive Pink Collection
Water colour on paper sketched by Olive Pink, (place and date unknown) Northern Territory. Identified by Olive Pink as Erodium cygnorum.
Olive Pink
Part of Olive Pink Collection
Watercolour and pencil on card sketched by Olive Pink, from Kalamunda, Western Australia, 1912. Line drawn diagonally across card separating pictures. Top section "V" identified by Olive Pink as a Grevillea. Bottom section "VI"...
Olive Pink
Part of Olive Pink Collection
Pencil on paper sketched by Olive Pink, Mt. Tambourine, Queensland, 1926. Not identified by Olive Pink
Olive Pink
Part of Olive Pink Collection
Coloured pencil on paper sketched by Olive Pink, Gilla, Queensland, August 1934. Not identified by Olive Pink (Dimensions
Olive Pink
Part of Olive Pink Collection
Coloured pencil on paper sketched by Olive Pink, Jila, Northern Territory, 1934. Not identified by Olive Pink
Olive Pink
Part of Olive Pink Collection
Coloured pencil on brown paper sketched by Olive Pink, Bond Springs or Aileron Station, Northern Territory, 1936. Not identified by Olive Pink
Olive Pink
Part of Olive Pink Collection
Coloured pencil on brown paper sketched by Olive Pink, Bond Springs or Aileron Station, Northern Territory, 1934. Not identified by Olive Pink
Olive Pink
Part of Olive Pink Collection
Pencil and coloured pencil on paper sketched by Olive Pink, Aileron Station, Northern Territory, 1936-37. Identified by Olive Pink as Bean Tree
Olive Pink
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Unidentified [Capparis spinosa]
Part of Olive Pink Collection
Watercolour on paper sketched by Olive Pink, 21/6/42. Not identified by Olive Pink but later identified as Capparis spinosa
Olive Pink
Part of Olive Pink Collection
Coloured pencil on paper sketched by Olive Pink, Thompsons Rock Hole, 27/8/42. Described by Olive Pink as " I call this hybiscus but I think the whites here call it the Desert Rose ( a silly name !). Fully open blossom - the effect is very pa...
Olive Pink
Part of Olive Pink Collection
Coloured pencil on paper sketched by Olive Pink, Thompsons Rock Hole, 27/8/42. Not identified by Olive Pink. "Don't know name - small low plant and tall ones too. Very difficult so frail in texture and transparent paperish that the light...
Olive Pink
Part of Olive Pink Collection
Pencil on card sketched by Olive Pink, Thompsons Rock Hole, 1943. Described by Olive Pink as "light green stems dark green leaves almost lemon yellow at joints" (drawn on the back of P6-15-13a)
Olive Pink
Part of Olive Pink Collection
Watercolour on card sketched by Olive Pink, enroute to Parilyu (on sandhill), 17/9/43. Not identified by Olive Pink
Olive Pink
Erythrina vespertilio - pods and beans
Part of Olive Pink Collection
Water colour on card. Sketched by Olive Pink, 3/12/43. Identified by Olive Pink as pods and beans of Erythrina vespertilio. Page of sketchbook.
Olive Pink
Part of Olive Pink Collection
Pencil on card. Sketched by Olive Pink, June 1945. Sketched on the back of P6-15-18
Olive Pink
Part of Olive Pink Collection
Water colour on card sketched by Olive Pink, 1944. "Violet". May be Superb Fairy-wrens
Olive Pink
Part of Olive Pink Collection
Watercolur and pencil on card sketched by Olive Pink, from Sister Goulder (Vic), 12/9/49 (from North Road I think?)
Olive Pink
Part of Olive Pink Collection
Indian ink on card sketched by Olive Pink, (date and location unknown)
Olive Pink
Part of Olive Pink Collection
Watercolour and ink on tracing paper sketched by Olive Pink (date and location unknown)
Olive Pink
Part of Olive Pink Collection
Watercolour on card sketched by Olive Pink, (date and location unknown)
Olive Pink
Part of Olive Pink Collection
Pencil on card sketched by Olive Pink, (date and location unknown) Bird sketched on the back of P6-16-18
Olive Pink
Part of Olive Pink Collection
Watercolour on card sketched by Olive Pink 30/9/57 (location unknown). Identified by Olive Pink as Cassia eremophila - "very hurried - looks like big storm"
Olive Pink
Part of Olive Pink Collection
Watercolour and pencil on paper sketched by Olive Pink 1958 (location unknown)
Olive Pink
Part of Olive Pink Collection
Water colour and pencil on card sketched by Olive Pink in Alice Springs, 1958
Olive Pink
Part of Olive Pink Collection
Water colour and pencil on card sketched by Olive Pink in Alice Springs, 1958
Olive Pink
Part of Olive Pink Collection
Black and white photograph taken by Olive Muriel Pink of her aboriginal guide, near Alice Springs, Central Australia, 1934, with inscription on the back by Olive Pink, 'My native (guide, factotum and friend!) a full-blooded Arunda on our way ...
Olive Pink
Part of Olive Pink Collection
Black and white photograph by Olive Pink of the Finke River in Central Australia, 1934, with inscription on the back by Olive Pink, 'The Finke River ("bed" - it was sand not water - when I saw it!) Mt ? in distance. (At Horseshoe Be...
Olive Pink
Part of George Musgrave Parker: Correspondence and research records
Photograph of floods in the Cranbrook district, Tasmania taken June 1923 - Cranbrook Bridge looking to Gala Mill
George Musgrave Parker
Part of George Musgrave Parker: Correspondence and research records
Photograph of side view of Apslawn House. A sandstone Georgian house built in the 1840's on 640 acres of land granted to John Lyne, MHA for Glamorgan ,1843-1865. Located on the Tasman Highway, Apslawn, 13km south-west of Bicheno.
George Musgrave Parker
Mayfield cottages - Buxton Cottages
Part of George Musgrave Parker: Correspondence and research records
George Musgrave Parker
Coastal view: East Coast near Swansea
Part of George Musgrave Parker: Correspondence and research records
thought to be near Swansea
George Musgrave Parker
Coast view: East Coast Rocky Hills
Part of George Musgrave Parker: Correspondence and research records
Thought to be Rocky Hills
George Musgrave Parker
Rocky Hills: commandant's house, now "Thirza"
Part of George Musgrave Parker: Correspondence and research records
Mrs Mitchell photo
George Musgrave Parker
Part of George Musgrave Parker: Correspondence and research records
B. Sheppard photo.(See also book chap 3, P1/35(262)
George Musgrave Parker
Part of George Musgrave Parker: Correspondence and research records
Spiky Bridge near Swansea. Ash Bester postcard
George Musgrave Parker
Part of George Musgrave Parker: Correspondence and research records
Photograph of Swansea Beach with Freycinet in distance
George Musgrave Parker
Part of George Musgrave Parker: Correspondence and research records
Photograph taken by George Musgrave Parker (see also book ch.3)
George Musgrave Parker
Glen Gala House: brick house, croquet lawn
Part of George Musgrave Parker: Correspondence and research records
Photograph of Glen Gala House at Cranbrook. Adam Amos arrived in March 1821 in the Emerald along with George Meredith, and was advised to look for land on the unsettled east coast. Adam's capital entitled him to a grant of 1000 acres (405 ha...
George Musgrave Parker
Bluff Cottage, formerly known as Harbottle's Cottage and Caulfield Cottage
Part of George Musgrave Parker: Correspondence and research records
Photograph of Bluff Cottage, formerly known as Harbottle's Cottage and Caulfield Cottage. This single storey, sandstone rubble building with a corrugated iron hipped roof was listed by the National Trust in 1976 as it demonstrated the pri...
George Musgrave Parker
Papers relating to the voyage out and settlement of Robert Mather and his wife, Ann (Benson). Many of the papers (Ml0/16-20) consist of extracts from letters from Ann Mather to her brother, Rev. Samuel Benson, and sisters Isabella Whytall and Sara...
Robert Mather
Diploma of degree of Associate of Arts
Diploma of degree of Associate of Arts, awarded to Mary Friend Whitney Canaway of Hobart, by the Tasmanian Council of Education dated 17th October 1878. Includes wafer seal. Examined and passed in the following subjects. English with credit, Frenc...
Mary Friend Whitney Canaway
Collection consists of personal diaries and photographs relating to Risby Brothers, sawmillers and timber merchants
Thomas Risby
Rooftops of Hobart looking east
Part of Photographs of Edward Verrell
Black-and-white photograph shows view of Hobart rooftops looking east over central city streets including Harrington Street and Murray Street
Visitors at Falls Hut, Mount Wellington
Part of Photographs of Edward Verrell
Black-and-white photograph shows visitors standing on front steps and veranda at Falls Hut, built 1897, at the Cascades, on road to Mount Wellington
Hobart GPO before installation of clock in tower
Part of Photographs of Edward Verrell
Black-and-white photograph shows Hobart General Post Office viewed from Franklin Park before the installation of the clock in the clocktower.
Part of Photographs of Edward Verrell
Black-and-white photograph shows stone buildings along Salamanca Place, timber stacked on New Wharf and masts of ships docked at the wharf; signs on buildings for “A.E. Lord Wool Merchant” and “W.D. Peacock and Co.”, historic home Lenna and easter...